Updates (Again)

Hi, everyone

This is just a very short update. I wrote two novellas when I was on holiday – one of which is now part of the collection, the other intended for Fantastic Schools – and now, given that we are back on and the kids are going back to school, I have completed the first draft of Judgement Day, the direct sequel to Endeavour and The Lone World. I hope to have the book edited in a couple of weeks or so, but obviously I cannot promise a precise publication date just yet. Watch this space.

My current plan is to go ahead with Conquistadors, the start of a new series featuring a cross-time invasion, then either do a new Learning Experience or The Empire’s Corps. I’m currently working on the plan for Schooled In Magic 26, The Apprentice Mistress, but I have a bit of a problem getting the plot to where I want it to go. My normal practice when dealing with plot-block is to write it out, then leave it alone for bit and see what happens. Hopefully, The Apprentice Mistress will be the third book in my planned publication schedule.

I’m tossing around handful of other ideas, which I will develop when I have the time. I intend to do a pure alternate history story at some point, set in 1950s Nazi-ruled Europe, or possibly a story featuring two young boys who buy an interstellar freighter and set off to have adventures; naturally, it doesn’t always go as they hoped. I’m also trying to draw up a list of plots for future Schooled In Magic tales, mainly for Fantastic Schools, that explore other boarding school and school themes in general: the school play, bullies, and other concepts that might fit into the universe without being world-shattering. Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed.

For various reasons, I also need to do a book – either the start of a trilogy or perhaps a stand-alone – that follows an ISOT/Ring of Fire theme; basically, something gets sent back in time to change history. As you may know, if you were following my work from start, one of my original ideas was to send modern day Britain (2007 Britain, to be exact) back to 1940 and see what happened then; I’m tempted to try redoing that series from scratch because there were a lot of good ideas in it, but at the time I was not remotely able to do it justice. There are other ideas – I am tempted to mess around with sending the modern HMS Queen Elizabeth back in time instead, as well as a handful of others – so feel free to let me know what you would like to see.

Anyway, back to work for me. If you have time to leave a review, please do so: every little review helps a great deal.

Thank you for your time

Chris